PowderCoating Hardware

[NIMBY]

fellow forum-goers

has anyone powder coated their drum hardware themselves,
when i say themselves i mean taken there stuff to a professional and gotten them to do it?

did it work good or not?

i was thinking of doing it and thought i might ask.

[drumr0]

I work in an aluminum extrusion plant and we have an anodizing line and a wet paint line. Even though we don't powder coat, from what I have read, the pretreatment is the most important part of the process. They would have to strip your current finish, clean the part, probably acid wash the part, and put another chemical on it to make the powder adhere.

Powder coating is very durable and comes in many colors, so even though I haven't done it personally, as long as you could find a reputable shop to do it, I would say go for it.

[Big_Philly]

Oh man, I'm getting ideas :)

[KCDrummer]

The only potential problem I see is the threading in the lugs. You would have to figure out a way to powder coat the lug without coating the threading. If you coated that, you wouldn't be able to insert the tension rods.

[Garvin]

Another thing to consider would be this. How often do you replace hardware. I know in my experience most of my hardware is just a mixed bag of stands I've acquired through various channels of borrowing, finding, or combining different parts of other hardware. I'm not entirely sure that I wouldn't have to replace a piece or a whole stand in the next 6-8 months. Maybe buy your spares now and get them all treated or you might find yourself with a mismatched bunch of hardware (if that matters to you).

Definately watch the threading and the pivot points. I think powdercoating adds mass and might cause issues for moving parts.

[drumr0]

KCDrummer brings up a good point about the threads. Where I work, I get several magazines dealing with wet paint, powder coating, and anodizing that I read with interest because I like to see how different companies deal with various problems that we have to deal with too.

They make all kinds of masking products from special tapes (which we have used here painting soccer goal posts) to plugs that insert into holes and threads that do not need to have the coating in.


I kind of got the impression from Nimby that he was just going to maybe powder coat his lugs and hoops. That's all I would powder coat. I agree with Garvin, I can see many problems with coating stands and other hardware that swivels.

[Ozzy Biz]

Call me traditional, but I think most of the time, powdercoating looks cheesy. Gold, brass and black nickel (especially) are great, but I think you just can't go past good ol' chrome.

[NIMBY]

I kind of got the impression from Nimby that he was just going to maybe powder coat his lugs and hoops.

i only meant the hoops and lugs, sorry for any confusion.

[NIMBY]

im not sure if you could do this on the kit i want to do the powdercoating on,

but on my current kit i can take the lug off and pull out the thread because it is just held in with a spring, so i could just take all the threads out and then get it powdercoated.

i was going to do it to a PDP kit, does anyone know if the PDP lugs use this kind of system?

[iamtak]

yeah, taking out the threaded insert on the lugs should do it.

PDP should be like that.

[NIMBY]

has anyone ever done this and had great success?